At its meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand 2-6 May 2016 the
FIG General Assembly will elect two new Vice Presidents
for term of office 2017-2020. Please note that the voting for
Commission Chairs Elect will be postponed.

FIG Member Associations are invited to consider nominations
for Vice President of the Federation for the period 2017-2020.
Deadline for submission of nominations is 20 January
2016.

Formalizing the Informal: Challenges and Opportunities of Informal Settlements in South-East Europe

This publication is prepared by UNECE and FIG. FIG President Chryssy Potsiou is lead author. The publication examines the causes of informal housing development in South-East Europe and assesses the Government's policies to address this issue.

Again this year FIG greeted many visitors at the FIG stand and had the chance to talk to both members and potential future members of FIG. FIG President Chryssy Potsiouand FIG Vice President Rudolf Staiger attended the exhibition and conference

The FIG President meets with the President of the Association of Licensed Surveyors of Israel and the Director General of the Survey of Israel in Tel Aviv, and visits the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and the SIVAN Design private company in Tel Aviv, Israel, 6 & 7 September 2015.

See Lian On, Chair of FIG Commission 10, is FIG nominee for the Standard Setting Committee of ICMS. ICMS focuses on the lack of global standards in construction measurement and reporting. The meeting also included discussion on the administration of ICMS and protocols for moving forward with the effort, such as the governance model, standard-setting process, implementation, and communications.

FIG Workshop on "The Role of Land Professionals and SDI in Disaster Risk Reduction

FIG Commission 2 and 7 invite you to attend the International FIG Workshop on "The Role of Land Professionals and SDI in Disaster Risk Reduction: In the Context of Post 2015 Nepal Earthquake” on 25-27 November 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Workshop is jointly organised by FIG Commission 2, FIG Commission 7, ISPRS Working Group IV/4 together with the Nepal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (NICS) and the Nepal Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (NRSPS).

A majority of the participants are generally happy with the FIG Working Week in Sofia, Bulgaria. 90 percent of the respondents of the post-conference survey indicated that they were overall satisfied. However, the survey also showed some areas of dissatisfaction, hereunder obsolete conference facilities; varying scientific level and not so inspiring lunches. The feedback is highly appreciated, and it will be taken seriously and will enable FIG to better plan and execute future conferences.

The purpose of the workshop was to share experience and practices in registration and cadastral systems enhancement within the framework of land administration. The seminar covered issues of registration and cadastral systems development, the use of information technologies aimed at improving the mentioned systems, as well as issues of information interaction between subjects of land administration.

The minutes from 38th FIG General Assembly are now available. They are being sent out to all members of FIG these days together with the Annual Report 2014, the FIG Profile 2015 and the new publication 66, which is an update of the Statutes and Internal Rules.

FIG is an endorsing partner of The inaugural GIM International Summit. The discussions at this high-end conference will be fuelled by speakers external to the geomatics industry who will explain the needs and desires of the outside world and suggest how the geomatics sector should respond.

General Assembly 2015 – close run between VCGR, Vietnam and geosuisse, Switzerland

FIG 38th General Assembly was held on 17 and 21 May 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria in connection with FIG Working Week 2015. The Vietnamese association VCGR wan the election for the FIG Working Week 2019, both a Honorary President and a Honorary Member was appointed, and FIG Council introduced a new appreciation as Honorary Ambassador. The Work Plans for the term 2015-18 were introduced and debated, and four new Task Forces were endorsed by the General Assembly.The General Assembly was very well attended. On 17 May 50 member associations out of 104 were represented and on 21 May 56 out of 103 member associations were present. Hereto there were both affiliate, academic and corporate members attending as well as observers.

We would like to thank you all so much for
your participation in the FIG Working Week 2015! We hope you
had a wonderful time and enjoyed the quality and variety of
sessions. Hopefully it was a memorable experience to
all of you. We look forward to seeing you again at the FIG Working Week
next year!

2014 was a productive year for FIG. Chryssy Potsiou, Greece was elected
as president and there were many arrangements, activities and useful
results and many within the FIG community were engaged in all these
happenings for which FIG thanks very much. Read a summary of the
activities that took place in 2014. The FIG Annual Review 2014 is now
available as .pdf

25-26 March 2015, Helsinki Finland

The Local Organising Committee for FIG Working Week 2017 held its
initial meeting with FIG Manager Louise Friis-Hansen. Co-conference
director is Pekka Halme, and the other representatives are Martti
Pietikäinen, Heli Ursin and Paavo Häikiö (MML) who are
representing the two Finnish Associations MIL and MAKLI. The meeting
took place at the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) where all LOC
members conveniently work. FIG already now thanks NLS for their valuable
support to the Working Week.

The FIG Foundation has decided to provide a
number of grants in support of young surveyors attending the
2015 FIG Working Week and 3rd FIG Young Surveyors European
Meeting. These grants are available to all young surveyors who
meet the definition of a young surveyor as defined below
(regardless of where you live).
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On 21-25 of October 2013 in connection with
the FIG Commission 7 Annual meeting an International
symposium and training was organised by FIG and FGF.

The publication is a summary of a three days
seminar reflecting the diversity of stakeholders, the
richness of presentations and debates of a seminar organised
by the Federation of French-Speaking surveyors (FGF) with
FIG Commission 7 in October 2013 in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

On 26 February 2015 The United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN resolution
on Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Development that was initiated
by the Republic of Fiji. This UN Resolution is one concrete example of an outcome
from the UN GGIM, in which FIG has been active. Last year at the FIG Congress 2014
in Kuala Lumpur a UN-GGIM-AP/FIG Statement was adopted where FIG expressed the
importance of the resolution and urged the member organizations to bring the Statement
back home to the respective countries.

Around 60 International participants and more than 100 Greek surveyors attended the FIG
Kick-Off Event that took place on 24 January 2015 to celebrate and mark the change in FIG Leadership.
Representatives from Greece and the International FIG Community spoke over the theme
"Ensuring the Rapid Response to Change, Ensuring the Surveyor of Tomorrow" that is also the
new theme of FIG for the term 2015-18. FIG Council will use all input from the day to adjust
and finalise the FIG Work Plan 2015-18 with the good and relevant information and
knowledge provided during the day.

FIG President CheeHai Teo (2011-14) greets Chryssy Potsiou with the election for President 2015-18

Chryssy Potsiou, Technical Chamber Greece, is per 1 January 2015
now formally the President of FIG for the term 2015-18, although she has
already gradually taken over from President CheeHai Teo during
the last six months after the election. New Vice President and member of
FIG Council is Diane Dumashie, RICS UK, elected for 2015-18.
Rudolf Staiger, DVW Germany was reelected for the the term 2015-18
and Pengfei Cheng, Chinese Society for Surveying, Mapping and
Geoinformation and Bruno Razza, CNGeGL Italy are continuing their
term as Vice Presidents until the end of 2016. FIG also welcomes the ten
new FIG Commission Chairs, also elected for the term 2015-18, as well as
the new Chair of FIG Young Surveyors, Eva Maria Unger. The change of
leadership of FIG will be marked at a Kick-Off Event in Athens, Greece,
on 24 January 2015.

International Federation of Surveyors, FIG, is a United Nations and World Bank recognized
non-governmental organization of national member associations
and covers the whole range of professional fields within the
global surveying community. It provides an international forum
for discussion and development aiming to promote professional
practice and standards.